they don't pass information to law enforcement agencies
Have you contacted your Representative and Senators?
You might be stuck if they are Democrats kissing La Rasa's ass, but if local Republicans make an issue of it, that might "stimulate" you Congressmen to act out of self-defense.
I spend untold hours every year correcting entries
Unfortunately none of these strategies protect my from a major accident like a house fire.
Have you considered making copies of those home movies and mailing/driving them to your mother's house? There's a very small likelihood of both being destroyed in the same month.
Unless you both live in the same disaster zone. That's why my uncle mailed backups from L.A. to LA.
Just because you don't like something does not mean it should be illegal.
Where have you been for the past, ohhhh, since-the-beginning-of-humanity???
A huge chunk of humanity (and, believe you me: not just right-wing religious fundamentalists) thrives on telling other people what to do and think, how to dress, etc, etc ad nauseum, and do their damnedest to ensconce their beliefs into law...
What's worse, how long will this exploit live in the wild?
Not long. People running cutting-edge kernels tend to update their kernels rather frequently.
You'll all foam at the mouth how quickly it will be patch. OK. That's nice and all,
Yes, it is.
but how long until it's disseminated on say 90% of Linux machines exhibiting the flaw?
Seeing as how most desktop Linux users run the "stable" versions of big-name distros, all of which currently ship with kernel 2.6.29 or older, and the server distros like RHEL and SLES use kernels even older than that, I'd say that the flawed kernel will never be disseminated to 90% of Linux machines.
And I'm sure, being Linux, this won't take a reboot right? (I'm joking on that last one - of course it will).
I don't know how well this works, but this is supposed to to let you update your kernel without rebooting.
Double standard indeed.
Yeah, but Windows earned that double standard.
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I've met CS graduates who, because the uni does not allow outside libraries for some projects, never learned how to search google for a function or known solution to a problem.
?????? Teach someone to use libraries???????
You don't teach that to intelligent young people; you teach it to high-functioning drones who'll never be able to progress beyond "do only what I've already exactly been taught".
Good point. But it's the exception that proves the rule.
camera angles...
While technically orthogonal to "quality of game engine", I wouldn't be surprised if games that "look worse than home movies shot by amateurs" suffer from poor implementation in other areas, like the game engine.
You claimed without any reasoning or evidence that people who get immersed in games are immature.
If by "immersed", you mean "starting to think that you are the character you play" and getting too wrapped up in the game (or the TV show, for that matter...), then yes I do think that is socially immature. And maladjusted. Possibly (probably?) with an addictive personality.
It's only backwards in human thought, because people have the ingrained presupposition that the server is the Big Machine In Another Room, and the client is the Little Machine On Your Desk.
Could Star Wars have been created with 1950s movie tech?
Exactly as it was? No. (Most especially when the TIE fighters were attacking the M/F as it escaped.)
But... Remember that Lucas showed film of WW2 dog fights to help studio execs visualize what some scenes were like. Luke and Han shooting at TIE fighters was, in essence, Me 109s attacking a B-17, with waist gunners defending it.
So I'm sure that studio special effects people like Ray Harryhausen and the people who did/Forbidden Planet/ would have done just as well.
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they don't pass information to law enforcement agencies
Have you contacted your Representative and Senators?
You might be stuck if they are Democrats kissing La Rasa's ass, but if local Republicans make an issue of it, that might "stimulate" you Congressmen to act out of self-defense.
I spend untold hours every year correcting entries
Get a new SSN?
immediately squelch any such thoughts.
Pshaw!
Everyone knows you shouldn't date a robot...
I can destroy any object by merely deciding not to consider it an object anymore! ;-D
I'm so glad you also realize it's arrant crap.
As Einstein said... "I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."
In case you didn't know, Kansas is a state. Missouri is also a state.
He's a blue state (ignorant, the "best" kind) elitist bastard, who I started ignoring ASA I saw that stupid comment of his.
It's funny how the most lasting icon of soviet communism has been embraced in the US.
That's because we know a good firearm when we see it.
Sadly, we also don't care about buying crap, which is why so many SKS have been sold.
Unfortunately none of these strategies protect my from a major accident like a house fire.
Have you considered making copies of those home movies and mailing/driving them to your mother's house? There's a very small likelihood of both being destroyed in the same month.
Unless you both live in the same disaster zone. That's why my uncle mailed backups from L.A. to LA.
Don't tell us you're using LVM for critical data such as backups.
Why not? Such volumes are only powered up and mounted for a short time every so often.
LVM does not implement file system barriers.
Either lvm2 silently ignores barriers, or Kernel 2.6.30 and lvm2 2.02.44 now implement barriers:
All boundaries are mental constructs.
Post-modernist deconstructionism is arrant crap, and should be lumped in with other intellectual goo like "creation science".
I couldn't take them back for a refund, the manufacturer told me too bad, so I'm stuck with them.
That's why I buy from Newegg.
Just because you don't like something does not mean it should be illegal.
Where have you been for the past, ohhhh, since-the-beginning-of-humanity???
A huge chunk of humanity (and, believe you me: not just right-wing religious fundamentalists) thrives on telling other people what to do and think, how to dress, etc, etc ad nauseum, and do their damnedest to ensconce their beliefs into law...
What's worse, how long will this exploit live in the wild?
Not long. People running cutting-edge kernels tend to update their kernels rather frequently.
You'll all foam at the mouth how quickly it will be patch. OK. That's nice and all,
Yes, it is.
but how long until it's disseminated on say 90% of Linux machines exhibiting the flaw?
Seeing as how most desktop Linux users run the "stable" versions of big-name distros, all of which currently ship with kernel 2.6.29 or older, and the server distros like RHEL and SLES use kernels even older than that, I'd say that the flawed kernel will never be disseminated to 90% of Linux machines.
And I'm sure, being Linux, this won't take a reboot right? (I'm joking on that last one - of course it will).
I don't know how well this works, but this is supposed to to let you update your kernel without rebooting.
Double standard indeed.
Yeah, but Windows earned that double standard.
I've met CS graduates who, because the uni does not allow outside libraries for some projects, never learned how to search google for a function or known solution to a problem.
?????? Teach someone to use libraries???????
You don't teach that to intelligent young people; you teach it to high-functioning drones who'll never be able to progress beyond "do only what I've already exactly been taught".
"the old VMS systems"
Fortunately, VMS is still alive and kicking.
Finance? Really? I thought that was Cobol.
Finance is all about mathematics, which suggests FORTRAN.
COBOL, though, is "DP" -- Data Processing -- read a record, process the record, write the record.
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Good point. But it's the exception that proves the rule.
camera angles ...
While technically orthogonal to "quality of game engine", I wouldn't be surprised if games that "look worse than home movies shot by amateurs" suffer from poor implementation in other areas, like the game engine.
Think home-video.
Oh.
Well shit... Nobody disagrees with that.
You claimed without any reasoning or evidence that people who get immersed in games are immature.
If by "immersed", you mean "starting to think that you are the character you play" and getting too wrapped up in the game (or the TV show, for that matter...), then yes I do think that is socially immature. And maladjusted. Possibly (probably?) with an addictive personality.
How is this backwards?
It's only backwards in human thought, because people have the ingrained presupposition that the server is the Big Machine In Another Room, and the client is the Little Machine On Your Desk.
That doesn't even make any fucking sense.
Your response speaks more than you realize.
it's just a different approach to gaming.
I'd call it a *mature* approach to gaming.
Does a good movie look better with a higher quality camera and better film? Yes (in many cases).
Would Psycho or The Twilight Zone be any better in color? No.
Would Star Wars be any better with modern CGI? No.
Would North By Northwest be any better if "the blonde" was Xena The Warrior Princess and Roger O. Thornhill was a bumbling slacker? No.
Could Star Wars have been created with 1950s movie tech?
Exactly as it was? No. (Most especially when the TIE fighters were attacking the M/F as it escaped.)
But... Remember that Lucas showed film of WW2 dog fights to help studio execs visualize what some scenes were like. Luke and Han shooting at TIE fighters was, in essence, Me 109s attacking a B-17, with waist gunners defending it.
So I'm sure that studio special effects people like Ray Harryhausen and the people who did /Forbidden Planet/ would have done just as well.
The problem is that he seems really smart, and *should* transmit his genes...
Yup. And he said, "Hi, Mom!".
There's no way he's passing on his genes.